Micki
Reeves

Canoe/Kayak

Name: Micki ReevesPrimary events: Canoe Slalom, C1 Women Height: 5’8”Birth date: 09/10/1989Hometown: Grand Junction, Colorado Current residence: Denver, CO and Durango, COCollege/school: University of Colorado at BoulderClub/team: I am not currently affiliated with a club, although I work with Cathy Hearn in Durango, CO who also coaches for Durango Whitewater.

2014 U.S. Senior National Team Member

Career highlights:

U.S. Senior Slalom National team member (2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008)

2012 U-23 US Slalom Team Member

3rd Place Overall in 2013 Pyrenees Cup Race Series

Recent results:

2014 World Championships: 23rd in C1W

2014 World Cup Final: 8th in C1W

2014 World Cup No. 4: 16th in C1W

2014 World Cup No. 1: 16th in C1W

2014 U.S. Team Trials: 2nd in C1W

2014 U.S. Open: 1st in C1W

2013 World Championships: 32nd in C1W

2013 Final World Cup Series Rankings: 20th in C1W

2013 World Cup Final: 20th in C1W

2013 World Cup No. 4: 13th in C1W

2013 World Cup No. 3: 17th in C1W

2013 World Cup No. 2: 15th in C1W

2013 U.S. Slalom Team Trials: 2nd in C1W

3rd place 2013 Pyrenees Cup Race #1

7th place 2013 Pyrenees Cup Race #2

8th place 2013 Pyrenees Cup Race #3

2012

2nd place US Slalom Olympic Team Trials

6th place U23 World Championships

8th place 2012 Slalom World Cup #1

10th place 2012 Slalom World Cup #2

13th place 2012 Slalom World Cup #3

14th place Australian Open

2011

1st place US Slalom Age Group Nationals

2010

3rd place Charlotte Open World Ranking Race

3rd place US National Slalom Team Trials

15th place 2010 Slalom World Cup #1

14th place 2010 Slalom World Cup #2

11th place 2010 Slalom World Cup #3

16th place 2010 Slalom World Championships

Nickname: "Micki" is my nickname. My full name is Mackenzie.

Hobbies: Reading, hiking, cooking, baking, photography

Trivia: I like to make 4-course dinners once a week when I have time at home with my husband.

How’d you get started with the sport? I paddled for the first time in Grand Junction through the Great Blue Heron Canoe and Kayak Team run by Dennis Adams in late 2006. Soon after, I began to race in the downriver discipline, competing as a K1. With a left shoulder injury in fall of 2007, I began to paddle more canoe to allow my shoulder to rest and heal. Since then, I have never gone back to kayaking. In 2008, with almost no slalom experience except at a few local Colorado races, I participated in the 2008 US Slalom Olympic Team Trials, where the C1W class was introduced for the first time. After making the US team in 2008, I fell in love with both slalom and canoeing and have never turned back.

Dana Mann (Washington, D.C.) placed 26th in the women’s kayak semifinal with a time of 125.49, which was +16.89 seconds behind the round’s first place finisher. Mann incurred two gate touch penalties during her run. She qualified for the semifinal with a 9th place ranking after Friday’s heats.

Dana Mann (Washington, D.C.) finished 14th in women’s K-1 in her first World Cup of the season and first as a member of Team USA. The Slovakia-born paddler turned in a semifinal run time of 118.17, which was +6.86 seconds behind the round’s first place finisher. She incurred one gate touch penalty, which was enough to knock her out of the Top 10 and a place in the Final.

New U.S. paddler Fabien Lefevre (Bethesda, Md.) won the Bronze medal in the Men’s Kayak (K-1) Saturday at the 2013 Slalom World Cup No. 1. The two-time Olympic medalist for France improved from 16th after heats and 5th after the semifinals with a penalty-free final run time of 89.14, which was 2.03 seconds behind the Gold medalist Fabien Doerfler of Germany.